An experiment in autonomous navigation of an underground mining vehicle

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-95

  Scheding, Steven ^a   Dissanayake, Gamini ^b   Nebot, Eduardo Mario ^b   Durrant Whyte, Hugh ^b  

^a National Robotics Engineering Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automation; Inertial aiding; Kal man filter; LHD; Mining

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERING; LASERS; MINE TRUCKS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

ODOMETRY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0033079172     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.744605     Document Type: Article

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